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...Minneapolis pass inbound South American bauxite ore moving upriver to Kaiser, Alcoa and Olin Mathieson aluminum plants on the Ohio. The bauxite ore is transshipped from seagoing ships at New Orleans, but recently Captain Jesse Brent, head of a Greenville, Miss, towing company, bought a shallow-draft, 180-ft. vessel in which he hauls insecticides, feed and fertilizers direct from Memphis to South America. On the return voyage, Brent brings up meat and frozen foods...
Hands-Off Orders. After this bold foray last week, Havana radio called the attacker a "pirate vessel" manned by "criminals armed and paid by the U.S." Cried Castro himself over his powerful short-wave propaganda station: "We no longer have to bother ourselves proving the aggressive intentions of the Yankee imperialists. It is enough to read the Yankee press itself and the speeches of its Senators. They no longer deny their aggressive intentions. No! They proclaim them to the world publicly." Actually there was no indication that U.S. policy had shifted noticeably from the hands-off orders in force ever...
Frontier Foothold. It was no ordinary Indian pueblo. Out of the dirt came objects that had been used by 16th century Spaniards: bits of chain mail, parts of a helmet, an iron cannon ball, a carved piece of bone, a bronze candlestick base and the cover of a copper vessel probably used in celebrating Mass. Further digging exposed the plan of the old plaza, including the tracks of two dogs that had run across it once, at a time when rain turned the soil...
...towed easily by small boats, and do not need fancy dock facilities. And once its cargo has been drained off, a Dracone can either be inflated with air for the return tow or rolled up and carried home on the deck of the towing vessel...
...many-surgeon team agreed that the most urgent job was to restore the arm's circulation. Specialists in blood-vessel repair first made sure the blood would have a way to get out. With neat and delicate sutures, they stitched the arm's two main veins to their extensions in Ev's shoulder (see diagram). Next, they opened a way for the blood to get in by rejoining the major (brachial) artery. Says Dr. Shaw: "When we took off the clamps from the artery above the break, we rejoiced at the pinking...